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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE O. WENZEL, OF NEWRURG, NEW YORK.

PAC KAG E-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 22$,189, dated March 2, 1880.

- Application filed November 28, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE G. WENZEL, of Newburg, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Package-Boxes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying draw- 1ngs.

The invention relates to an improvement in package-boxes; and it consists in providing the two inner laps of the ends of the box with serrated interlocking edges, and in constructing one of the outer laps with a tuck having circular sides and a squared point, shoulders being provided at each side of the base of the tuck, and the other outer lap with a slot to receive the point of the said tuck, and with shoulders which pass over the said shoulders on the other lap.

By this construction the two inner laps of the box may be secured in position by interlocking their serrated edges, and the two outer laps locked by either the said tuck and slot or the said shoulders, or by both these means. i

The object of the invention is to provide a package which will effectually hold pulverized material, seed, and such matter as is liable to sift out between the folds of a box,

and which shall possess the requirements gen erally of package-boxes.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figurel is a plan view of the blank from which the package is folded, the dotted lines indicating where it is to be bent. Fig. 2 is an end view of the package, showing the mannor of fastening the laps a b. Fig. 3 is a similar view, showing the two laps c d closed.

A denotes the body of the box, which has its sides suitably attached to form a box of the desired configuration, its ends being supplied, for the purpose of opening or closing them, with the two inner end laps, a. b, and the two side laps, c d. The end laps, to b, have their ends 6 serrated or scalloped, as shown, and are of such length that when they. are folded inward the two serrated edges will come together and interlock, and in this manner sustain each other in position across the mouth of the box.

recess, g, and at each end thereof the projec- I tions or shoulders h.

The lap (1 consists of a tuck, '5, having sides of a circular form, a squared point, and at its base the shoulders m extending out. to the edges of the box, and corresponding in size and position with the shoulders h on the lap c.

In looking the box, the laps a I) being in the position aforesaid, the lap c is folded downward, its shoulders or projections h being passed between the protruding sides of the tucki and the shoulders m, and resting over the latter, being held in such position by the circular sides of the tuck, and only removable therefrom by upward pressure on the said tuck. After the lap c has been folded downward, as described, the lap (l is folded over and the point of the tuck c inserted in the slot f, when the box will be securely closed. The laps c d are locked at one side of the box by the shoulders h m and at the other side by the point of the tuck '5. The tuck 11 would alone, however, effectively secure the laps c d.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A fastening for a box made of paperor other material, consisting of the laps a b, having interlocking edges 0, and the laps c d, one supplied with the shoulders h and slot f, the other with the shoulders m and tuck 1', having rounded edges, substantially as set forth.

2. In a box made of paper or other material, the laps c d, one having the slot f and shoulders IL, the other the shoulders m and tuck '5, having rounded edges, substantially as specilied.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing improvement in packageboxes, as above described, have hereunto set my hand this 7th day of November, 1879.

GEORGE O. WENZEL.

Witnesses:

HUGH MOORE, J NO. DALES. 

